Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1885 — Gen. Custer as a Ladies’ Man. [ARTICLE]

Gen. Custer as a Ladies’ Man.

Gen. Custer was very fond of ladies’ society, but was never what is called a “married flirt” He enjoyed the seciety of ladies because they were pretty, or bright, or intelligent He was too true to his wife ever to have been a flirt. He visited the house of a young lady fnend of mine very frequently when he was in New York; they had known each other far years, and, were the best of friends. The waiter, William, being a new hand at the door, evidently took Gen. Custer for a beau of his young mistress, £nd to her great amusement always announced “the General” in the most confidential whisper and just the faintest suspicion of an approving smile. Gen. Custer said that his manner to hjm was that of a servant to a probable master. One day at the dinner table, 7’the young lady asked particularly after Mrs. Custer, when she was coming" to New York, etc., etc. Well-bred servant that he was, William almost

dropped the dish he was passing, and his complexion from charcoal turned to mahogany. I think he was very much disappointed, for he greatly admired the brave cavalryman, and from that day out he announced in formal tones, “Gen. Custer!” as though there had never been such a person as “the General” of his dreams.— Washington Independent.